Beck's Motives?

July 30, 1986

WHY WOULD columnist Joan Beck want to join a men's club anyway? Surely she can find injustice more worthy of her shrill crying than trying to make villains out of Rotarians, Lions and Kiwanians for voting to keep women out of their organizations.

Is Beck not a member of any organization that excludes men? Can't she accomplish the same constructive goals of leadership and community service and betterment through any women's organizations?

Is Beck aware of a single community that requires anyone wanting to work and improve it to be male only? Do these good causes, looking for support, limit themselves to accepting help from Rotarians, Lions and Kiwanians?

If Beck doesn't need to be a member of a men's club to help the community, and many fine women's clubs serve the same function, then I wonder what her motives are.

I agree with her in her last line, this problem isn't worth another column. It wasn't worth the first.